Re: RC: RE: 'cheap' horses in endurance / no $ in owning a stallion

[Lif Strand <fasterhorses@gilanet.com>]

I'd like to expand on the concept of buying culls.  I've said this before but I always feel that it hasn't really gotten through to anyone... while a cull from one area might make a good horse in another, a horse "engineered" for a sport , i.e. bred for it, raised for it and then trained & conditioned for it, is more *likely* to succeed.  Kind of like the woman who wrote in last week or the week before about her sister who runs marathons in sandals.  Sure it can be done, but  if you're looking to buy footwear for running, odds are running shoes are going to work better. 

Not enough people have been breeding for endurance long enough, with
enough of their horses out on the endurance trail to know yet about how
that breeding is working out.  But I think the principals of
breeding for performance, while not perfected, are still sound enough to
presume that that route has got to be better than buying culls. 
Lif

______________________________________________________
Lif & Paul Strand  STRAND ENTERPRISES fasterhorses.com
providing you with alternatives for your life
Web Page Design * Computer Graphics * Internet Research * Fine Art
Blue-Green Algae & other complementary health options
Arabian Horses for Distance Riding
fax: (561) 594-4609